Worm
Taste the diffidence
ellekari, I took the comment to mean he felt Capote was a society parasite first and a writer second. This is a common knock on Capote and was somewhat true in the last years of his life. His downfall tends to occupy people's minds rather than the first-rate prose he wrote in the earlier years of his career, beginning in the Forties and reaching its peak with "In Cold Blood". A more apt pronouncement might have been, "The movie 'Capote' was a reminder of how much of a shame it was that such a great writer spent the last years of his life sneaking around watching people". Again, just my opinion.